St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-20
THE AFTERNOON GAME
Witnessed By Great Crowd of
Base Ball Enthusiasts.

When Manager Barnes rang the bell
at $40 for starting the afternoon game
there were fully $500 people within the
enclosure. The grand stand, the ladies'
stand and the bleaching boards were
loaded down with people, and the over
flow found seats on the grass along the
fence at the left of the diamond and all
around the edges of the outfieId. The
batteries for the game were Sowders
and Stoekwell and Wells and Sage
The contest was not marked
by many brilliant plays, but
the game became so close in the
seventh inning that the excitement
the last man was out the crowd was on
tiptOe of expectation, and when Pick
EFT and Crooks threw out BroSnan at
second, retiring the visitors, cheer
went up that shook the grand stand.
The feature of the game was the double
plays. No less than five OF these were
made, three by DeS MoineS and two by
St.Paul. The home team played a gener-
ally strong game in the field. WilmOt's
two errors were made in taking deSper-
ate chances for put outs out near the
left-field fence. He deserves credit for
the hard runs he made. He was doubt
less following the advice of Capt. Kelly,
of the BOstonS: Never mind the errors;
win the game" Crooks played another
great game at second,
ACCEPTING ELEVEN CHANCES
without a skip. Pickett also did some
pretty short-Stop work, and, although
he made but one safe hit, kept the out
field pretty busy guessing on his flies.
Murphy and Cleveland each made a
pretty catch of fly ball. Stockwell
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getting three good singles and driving
the ball INTO the center fielder's hands
with terrific force. SowderS was not so
effective in his pitching as usual, but
did good execution with the stick. Nc
Cauley took in everything that came his
way, and Duryea drove the ball afield
for double and made an abortive at
tempt TO throw the ball out of the lot.
st. Paul started Off the first inning with
a rush. Murphy and WilmOt each got
base on fumbleS at short, and stole
around to second and third. Cleveland
went out on foul tip, and McCauley
brought in Murphy and Wilmot on hit
to center field. StOckwelP s hit to left sent
McCauley to third The latter scored
on Crooks out from second to first.
Stockwell going to third. Pickett drove
the ball between the ShOrt-Stop'S legs
and Stockwell crossed the plate
SowderS' two-bagger to right brought
Pickett fl, and Duryea, the ninth man
to bat, was retired on a grounder to
first. DeS MoineS did not score in the
first OF second inning, and st. Paul got
nothing in the second. In the third Nc
Cauley took base Oh balls, stole second
and got third on Stockwell's hit to left.
Crooks filled the bases by receiving a
present of the first one. The center
fielder then dropped Pickett'S long fly
AFTER A LONG RUN,
and the bases were emptied over the
plate before the ball was returned.
Pickett was doubled up with Sowders
and Duryea struck out. 1t looked like
a sure thing for st. Paul. Eight runs
had been secured by the home team and
Des MOineS had nothing. In the last
half of the inning, however, the visitors
added little interest to the game by
crossing the plate four times. After
FaatZ had gone out from second to first
Wells got i'll a good hit to right and
Wilmot dropped Sage's hartl-hit fly.
SOwderS hit Sutcliffe and the bases were
full. Larocque's hit to center field and
Murphy's error let i'll three men. Van
Dyke was declared out for interfering
with fielder and Larocque stole home.
Whitley ended the agony by going
out from short to first. The fourth
inning was blank for st. Paul, but
DeS MOineS added one on three hits and
a bad throw from right Neither got
anything in the sixth. In the seventh
for st. Paul Crooks took base on balls,
went 10 third on Pickett's center-feld
hit and scored OIL Sowders' out at cell
ter. The last half of the inning proved
deeply exciting. Wells opened up with
o vicious drive over Duryea's head for